Colouring your hair

[evangundy]

I found my first grey hair at age 13 and when I showed my mom, she told me she had too at 13, and that's the first time I remember her coloring her hair (she said she had been doing it since her early 20's). I colored mine when I was 30, so I wouldn't look old next to my little sister in her wedding pics (I had about 30% white by then). Treated myself regularly for 10 years, changing colors and cuts frequently. Then decided to grow it all out at age 40 to see how it looked. Haven't colored it since. And I keep it quite short. I get lots of compliments on my hair, but really, I keep it short and natural because I'm lazy and don't want to mess with it anymore. Here's a picture from my birthday party last July.
Edna

[Tuckervill]

I colored my hair for the first time in January, before I went on a cruise with the Barenaked Ladies. I was feeling mousy and I wanted to feel beautiful. Especially if I was going to meet my idols, who are younger than me.

It went bright brassy red on top instead of the chestnut brown it was supposed to be (don't ask me why) and I had to have my DIL fix it for me at her Aveda salon the day before we left. So, it grew out at the roots a few weeks later and I had to have it done again because it didn't look right. She did it in my natural color, but when I got a warning ticket for speeding the other day, the cop put my hair color as RED.

It looks almost like my natural color, to me, but I've always had red undertones. I'm about 30% gray, with it mostly in streaks at the temples. My grandmother was silvery, and my dad is bright white. If I thought my hair would be bright white like that, I'd do that. But--just yesterday on my ride I had two people who didn't believe I was old enough to have a son with a 3 year old child. Of course, both of these gentlemen were 62, and I'm 46. Perspective is everything.

I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to color it again when the roots grow out. :-/ Oprah said she doesn't believe in plastic surgery, but she BELIEVES in hair color!

Karen

[Bad JuJu]

I keep it short and natural because I'm lazy and don't want to mess with it anymore. Here's a picture from my birthday party last July.
Edna

Great hair color! I wish mine would go that color. It's getting there, but not there yet. I'm with you on the short-and-natural-because-it's-easy approach--I've got better things to do with my time than fool with my hair.

[Muddyfox]

Just thought I'd add one more to the thread. I'm 41, brunette and very slowly going grey (well, white actually). Like a few of you on this thread my hair grows quickly so the thought of having to dye it every 4-6 weeks depresses me - got better things to do - like cycling! I also actually like my own natural colour which there is still a lot left of so I'm sticking with it and see what the outcome is. It doesn't bother me and because I don't make an issue of it friends and family don't tend to notice it either. Only one person has ever said to my face that I should dye it (a female colleague) and I congratulated her on her honesty but thought that it was a shame that it bothered her so much.